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and the

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. Hewitt is a Grammy Award winner having received the accolade for mixing and engineering Red Hot Chili Peppers' ninth studio album Stadium Arcadium. The album received seven Grammy nominations and won in the categories of

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and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package. He is currently based in Nashville, TN.

Education and career

Hewitt grew up working with his father David Hewitt, a recording engineer. He went on to study at

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, MA where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. After establishing a rapport with Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist

, he went on to mix and engineer eight solo albums for Frusciante. Hewitt moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 2015 where he currently resides. Hewitt is based at the House of Blues Studios in Berry Hill, TN, where he mixed

' album Cleopatra as well as ''Long Way From Your Heart'' by the Turnpike Troubadors. He is currently represented exclusively by GPS management.Vintage King Producer's Corner"
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Selected discography

External links

Ryan Hewitt Interview
NAMM Oral History Library (2019)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hewitt, Ryan Living people American record producers Tufts University School of Engineering alumni Year of birth missing (living people)